by the day from moscow bradley manning says he lead confidential army data to make the us reconsider its foreign policy it's been revealed in a full record of his court testimony in defiance of the military bad the report also the press of the case of a country suing the hollywood is a but it's become reality as a rand plans legal action outraged by the oscar winning blockbuster argo. but the old guard passes the reigns over to a new generation in china tasked with combating an economic slowdown corruption and encroaching u.s. military. as the pals all argentina's claims over the falkland islands backed by strong support for themselves residents of another island say they feel abandoned and abused forced by london to live miles from home.

very good have you with us who just joined us kevin owen at the center tonight our top story than the world has got to hear the voice of whistle blowing u.s. soldier bradley manning for the first time since his imprisonment back in two thousand and ten in a recording leaked despite a call by and he explains why he released classified military data he says he wanted the world to see the true cost of war accusing troops of not valuing human life and comparing them to quote children torturing ants with a magnifying glass. as more of the case. he used emotive language as especially as he worked through this over an hour of audiophiles statement to the court describing his feelings we've taken a couple of edited excerpts of that one of them concerns this video from the cockpit of an apache attack helicopter over iraq the two pilots very eager to

engage a group of what turned out to be civilians on the ground killing twelve of them including two reuters journalists men come to try and help those shot in the first burst of firing and the helicopter then engages that van as well let's have a listen to what he said about that does that mean that. if. it was the only. way. for. me this is. bradley manning was shocked by what he saw in that video in two thousand and ten he took the decision to upload hundreds of thousands of documents onto the internet that were then released by wiki leaks there's been really strict reporting restrictions and great secrecy surrounding this trial no video no order you know

photos and no transcript as well out of that court although one transcript how's already been released from that in contravention of that that reporting ban followed by this audiophile east by the freedom of press foundation about the statement he gave a couple of weeks ago i think for many people it will be the first time they will have heard bradley manning's voice and they'll hear a little bit of the man behind all of this controversy perhaps help to make up their mind about him a bit many people in the u.s. do not take very kindly to what he's didn't quite frankly consider him a traitor as for him he has said that when seeing videos like. like we saw and seeing many of the things like the conflict covering up of human rights abuses and civilian casualties he really started to question what the wars in afghanistan and iraq were all about that helped to push him to this decision he tried official whistleblowing through the army he was rebuffed he says and then he decided to go

and leak this information i see explains. this. was. is that. so it should just be said as far as his trial goes at the moment he is has twenty two charges against him he's pleaded guilty to ten of those not guilty to the others some of those others include more serious charges such as aiding the enemy if he is convicted bradley manning could face up to twenty years in prison on bond reporting though you can share your opinion please on a bradley manning's case and testimony on the web site r.t. dot com sorte been telling us thank you for voting if you have done so for half of you have cast your vote believe bradley manning's become a scapegoat to the u.s. whistleblowers there we go fifty percent a little over a third of you say he's a martyr for the cause of free speech thirty five percent this hour only eight percent of you think he is just

a naive idealist and the minority again this think he's guilty of high treason you want to change your bit this afternoon but see what we can do with that for the next six hours will make your thoughts clear tonight to r.t. . all right now another story an inner city communities shows its outrage of the shooting dead of a teenager at the hands of offices hope you stay with us in our d.c. we reporters hundreds hit the streets to vent their anger against us police brutality. but soon but next loved. by others the oscar winning drama argo is not only drawn the admiration of the academy but now calls the fuehrer e to the islamic republic's planning a lawsuit against hollywood accusing the movie makers of an unrealistic portrayal of a country. but. you won't see such at the oscars every year none other than the u.s. first lady announced the best movie award and ben affleck could not hide his

delight at scooping the top statue for our goal not forgetting though to stick another boot into iran's backside right at the ceremony and we think canada would like our friends in iran living in terrible circumstances right now but all affleck is probably still celebrating his triumph his movie set to be based on a real cia operation sparked fury in iran needless to say argo has been forbidden for screening in the islamic republic but a closed circle of iranian officials and critics watched it and described it as cia propaganda aimed at moring the country's image this episode the storming of the us embassy caused particular fury witnesses of the nine hundred seventy nine when say only students took part whilst affleck chose to portray them as bloodthirsty terrorists holywood just trades on the spirit types and loves it remember borrett such a baron cohen's comedy that depicted kazakhs as uncivilised farmers of comedy for some but kazakhs definitely were not laughing borat was heavily criticised but it

never went beyond that this time iran may go one step further iranian media report that controversial french lawyer is the payer is now in tehran preparing an unprecedented lawsuit the islamic republic versus hollywood affleck himself is yet to respond to the accusations but with such strong statement of intent coming from iran soon enough hollywood produces may have to are go defend themselves independent filmmaker blogger dennis schachter things are go is the last straw that pushed around to take action and with a much deeper conflict. this trap again but it's probably good that so much against iran but even that americans don't sustain their fear of iran it also works the most political part of it is also with its attack on hollywood which shows how empty the whole hollywood culture is in coming up with this phony movie that the plot is sort of based around you know this is just under a movie with a palpable overlay you know tying it into that is caught in

a rock and it basically is is propaganda for the cia more then against iran because iran has been treated one to me and shortly for years going back to the hostage crisis i think this whole battle is really not about argo but it's about policy american policy sanctions against iran the hostility between the two countries which this movie can reinforce is unfortunately well from the debacle over our go to a true story that could very well fit hollywood's big screen to a dramatic prison break from bandit captivity we've got the story coming up we'll bring you first on the count of a journalist got a narrow escape would be captured by syrian rebels it's to come in the next few days. beijing is now just a day away from a once in a decade power transfer as a new generation takes over from the old and with china's economy still growing at a prodigious rate all eyes will be on those set to lead the country over the next

decade them transfer will see a near total change in china's top leadership with incoming cheating playing suspected to form a new fifth generation government his priority will be to get the country's economic engines running at full speed after a slight slowdown in recent years by twenty seventeen it's expected that china will overtake the u.s. as the world's largest economy the economic rivalry comes amid a battle for influence in asia between the two major ways correspondent shannon van sant thinks foreign policy is another issue the new leadership faces to. the obama administration announced a pivot to asia last year which means an increase in military spending on military military resources by the united states being focused in asia so that's very significant and china is really increasing its own military spending its developing its military they have appointed a couple of few senior diplomats in charge of china's foreign affairs one person who's been the point person on japan for a long time another person is very familiar in dealing with the united states so

how this will affect. leadership going forward particularly in terms of these territorial disputes china's been very assertive and sometimes even bellicose over the last year when talking about these territorial disputes and they seem to really want to show their strength in terms of talking about these issues that just increasingly china has the military strength now to back up some of these more bellicose claims and territorial claims and these parts of asia. the leadership has to be voted on national people's congress but already approved military spending so it gives a strong indication of which one is according to professor joseph at home to the university. moves from the state of buying it funds from the broad to the development of. the state of the art weapons on its own soul the research and development budget is expected to crawl rather substantially

as new weapon systems are already on the pipeline ready to be deployed given the fact that china aims to become a major power and be you know position to defend its territories and its own for its overseas interests it will continue to spend that kind of rate of increase without any substantial military expenditure i suspect in fact the time is so far to pop up we understand that the american military spending is very much limited by the fact that. the obama administration has to cut its military budget because of the financial difficulties we've got a lot more analysis on the chinese handover of power as well on our website our dot com here is what else is online few right now if you want to check it out get a moment justice saudi style we want you to read online about the new execution

method used to carry out a sentence from seven gang members it's gory but if you want to read up on its own . i don't mind robot as drill below the surface of mars find they were say new evidence that life could have existed there had learned the weak of water again to get people to speak with a moving story can. also turn. next a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster a journalist was held hostage by the mother of a fifty million dollar ransom but a skate eventually her captors and her question of a says that she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter world sees sean thomas of the cross' story first short. this went on for six months she had the fear of death and had literally for six months a huge run some was off it was in the next one the how did she get into this predicament in the first place certainly given it's a hollywood blockbuster story indeed the good news is that she is talking to the press and that the ukrainian foreign ministry has said that she is safe in damascus she's checked in with the embassy there but going back to october two thousand and

twelve she was reporting from the city of holmes a syrian hotbed of for the rebels there she was captured by syrian rebels reportedly from the free syrian army which is a very well known name there they threatened to kill her they held her for ransom for fifty million dollars as you mentioned a huge sum that ransom was not paid and this is from a group that threatened to kill any ukrainians any russians or any rain ians found in the area so we're talking about some serious people here now during this one hundred fifty three day ordeal she was held in very poor conditions in fact there were holes in the walls and in the roof where she was being kept so that when it snowed it came in to the actual room where she was then monday came and she's like enough is enough i'm going to get out of here she. got out of there walked fifteen kilometers mountainous conditions found someone who she believes she trusted let's

listen to her in her own words what she had to say about the whole ordeal. you know . at some point i realized that you thought i'd be killed by the army as i was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or i'd be killed by the rebels the treatment was very bad i lost some twenty kilograms and received no medical attention so i decided to take the situation into my own hands and escape i think this time when it was possible to escape and one early morning by the guards was sleeping i sneaked out dressed as a civilian i knew i could be a bit not even killed or captured again but i did have an idea of where to go and some passer by asked me who i was i told him the truth and luckily he didn't turn me in and help me get out thank god he did that i was afraid the territory was mined. now kevin. is in damascus is staying in syria she says that she wants to stay there to tell the truth about what's happening in the country she says that the international community is blind to what's really going

on there in fact one of the reasons why she was held because they said that she was supporting the assad regime but she was a journalist basically but now she has a story to tell lot of people ready to listen especially after these hearing a good decision she can she can continue doing. what she's been through thanks ever so much. no telling universities face a sharp drop in the number of applicants skyrocketing tuition fees the lack of job opportunities afterwards make higher education both affordable and undesirable we have that story for you right after this break. weekend without any financial. consent to. choose to get. to. choose the

stories but if you. choose access to. sigrid laboratory. was able to build a most sophisticated robot which doesn't sound anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog.

and the protest in brooklyn hundreds gathered on the streets there to vent their anger after a sixteen year old black boy was killed by police officers claim the teenager pointed a gun at them before they hit him with several rounds some are accusing the police of systematic racism while racial equality had to call dick says authorities in america of priorities or role the police whenever they murder or kill a black or latino youth it is always deemed justifiable homicide the witnesses tell a different story this happens again and again we should live in a society where those who are entrusted with public security. risk their own lives in murder or injure an innocent person but it's the other way around this is why people are upset and they should be upset people are frustrated people are angry and i am not going to dampen them for standing up to express anger because the real violence in this case begins with the killing of keep money. the people of the

falkland islands made the choice despite argentina's efforts to regain control of the territories they chose to stay british that's a luxury the population of another group of islands there in the indian ocean of never been afforded and it's not a sort of first reports britain's overseas policies are being labelled hypocritical . this is the story of an island a proud and spirited people displaced and it government he put it devastatingly high price paradise shockingly for many it will be the first time the stories ever being heard. of the happiness that we were leaving to each other and the way when been treating here we discover a moment it's very hard to go see it's a british colony in the indian nation and the largest of the chaebol silence has a population of a thousand people about the same as the. good

memories. there you go it's a home a real paradise today they da gusty is one of america's biggest military advices because we it's our land. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this anger because they are enjoying the island. we are suffering back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it is shrouded in secrecy bush cynically to learn the islands to the us but there was a problem the island had for generations been inhabited by the chikezie and people they'd built schools hospitals a whole life and what did the british government they simply pretended none of this existed by fixing the entire population from their homes secrets lies deception dishonesty always rooted in facts in one thousand nine hundred eighty s.

britain went to war protecting the folks and islanders from argentina in training first sums of money and costing precious lives the exact same time it was also using extensive resources preventing the people of the chakan silence from attending the falkland living in the homeland and they have a choice to say where they if they wanted to stay under. the rule of the british or if they wanted to go to the fork. time rules they have a city but reduce our question we don't have the city it. gave me the impression that there's not just this event the british government is the one like you every now and then you see you here in the news talking about human rights justice social justice and so on that day i don't wonder that many people in the justice the chikezie in community have been fighting for their right to return to the islands

ever since they winning some of their court cases pushed. government have continually appealed blocking their progress every step of the way how differently that people have been treated there's been a government balloting on knocking on doors on their behalf or asking what they want the h word comes to my mind age four for how long are you going to punish us for how long we're going to leave this life we don't want to be here we don't want this life we want to go back home where we belong that's our true send us back home perhaps the most shocking thing about this story is this is simply something that happened decades ago this person justice is being compounded by successive british governments right up to the coalition of today he continued to fight against the church returning to their island and so their

stories remain largely consigned to the shadows and yet the chikezie in people continue to bravely fight to return to their home. says. sarah. and. cricket is the target parliamentary forces in the indian controlled region of kashmir has killed at least five or five other people two were wounded in the shooting from took place in a school for children of indian police as you heard a spark a study group's report of the claimed responsibility for the attack kashmir has been hit by decades of violence but this is the first major instant three years. the dutch governments raise the national terror threat level from limited to substantial the netherlands fears an attack on home soil and against dutch interests abroad with ortiz said that's because citizens who left to fight in the syrian civil war could return home battle hardened and radicalized the warning

comes just two months before a major public celebration the transfer of the crown we've beatrix to this. card. into the sistine chapel for a first full day of voting as they seek to elect a new pope well it's on tuesday failed to gather the two thirds majority leader to name a successor to benefit the sixteenth who stepped down two weeks ago up to four rounds of votes a day could be held white smoke billowing from the roof of the chapel will signal that a new head of the catholic church has been chosen. now it was once clinton education is the best investment in life but it seems to me and italy is starting to do that with a sturdy forcing jewish in fees up and up and that those that can afford it higher education are finding that getting a job is also becoming a tougher challenge at the end of it all as artie's related reports italy was once an abode for thinkers philosophers and artists known for its lending universities

and schools now however the tables have turned as more and more students choose not to receive higher education for the simple reason of not being able to afford it and academics say no one but the government is to blame the country's national. in roman to italy universities dropped by nearly sixty thousand applicants in ten years that's equivalent to losing an institution the size of the university of new one in the last six or seven years we had. diminished from twenty percent. to the access to university anyway twenty percent in five years they meet young people understand that even if they go to university they would not find a job propped up on the scaffolding art history student and restore to reset continues from work even during our interview for her long working hours aren't a burden but a blessing. it's very difficult to combine work and school i used to spend four

hours just getting to work but i can't complain i'm actually very lucky that i got this opportunity because it's hard to find a job as it is and situation fees have gone up i have to have a job otherwise it's impossible to continue with school although italy and art are considered to be synonymous with one another teresa says an art historian like her is likely to be doing something entirely different after graduation. and this my specialty is restoration i'm going to get a diploma yet i will look for a job in other fields as it's hardly possible to get a job in this area there's a very slim chance to get a solid long term contract so i'll be looking for other ways to make money at. the displacement is something students seem to share with the faculty who have an equally distant perception of the situation. but i feel quite awkward talking about it but we the professors have really felt the strain we haven't had

a cellular raise in a decade but we have it easy and can't complain in comparison to the students and normal families who don't think of higher education as a stepping stone for the future it's no longer considered a worthy investment and a lot of families can afford it occasioned fees for a country with a glorious past where times people were literally ready to die for knowledge this trend does not bode well for a bright future in rome in a go school r.t. . the break up the mountain for us i should like to misters killing of john f. kennedy's on that program coming up on our to international.

the something people the extreme cold just the chilling threat to life for women of this it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the rates in my body feels really warm now this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make themselves stronger you can't get used to the cold if you will but you can tolerate it and you can struggle with. people of snow and ice picks as a frost. surviving the goal is. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so many i mean. the towns i know that i've seen seem to really messed up. and we're all very so closely the. worst cheer for those.

white house to give it to a radio guy and for sale minutes from a click cause they want to quote for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this i'm told. it's going on. guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set so you probably heard by now that bloomberg and the sugary drink crusade has been shot down just a day before was supposed to take effect new york state judge who ruled against it called it arbitrary and capricious same the law would not only violate the separation of powers doctrine but if visser it such a visitor ition has been potential has the potential to be more troubling than sugar sweetened beverages she says finally one gets it but as happy as i am to hear this ridiculous venture will not proceed i'm equally disturbed to find out some

other related news you see lawmakers in mississippi have recently taken the initiative to make absolutely certain their own local officials don't try to implement a similar initiative so they've actually voted through a bill that would prevent any mississippi county from passing laws to address obesity it's called the anti bloomberg bill and it would bar cities from acting rules requiring calorie counts to be posted or portion sizes to be kept here's the irony mississippi actually does have a serious obesity epidemic holding the title of the fattest state in the country in fact about one in three adults there's at least thirty pounds heavier than a healthy weight it's in saying to me to watch one extreme state measure to the next let's go break about set. up. where you are seeing anything like that.